Recent content by ianhey

I use one of those haulers - need to get another. The milk crate is a great idea!

I think that's the problem I'm seeing with the ice baths .... swings throughout the day between adding ice. I have a blonde that I have brewed three prior batches and all came out good. The current batch, (the fourth), has a pretty distinctive apple flavour - not cidery but apple? I figure it...

I'm looking to take the next step in upgrading my equipment. I've been using a large cooler filled with water and using ice to regulate the temperature while fermenting 5G batches in 6.5G glass carboys. I can definitely see the advantages to using a fridge or freezer and not having to mess...

What kind of quantities / aau's should I be looking for in the late hop addition .... 15, 10, 5, 0 and dry hop? Would you use the same hop for all of them?

I'm trying to brew a west coast style APA similar to Deschutes Mirror Pond. With my past brews, even though I think they're coming out really well, I'm not getting the hop finish I want. So I got a modified recipe from my LHBS and they told me to dry hop. The 5G recipe is extract + custom...

Yes .. I usually get about 1.045 - 1.050 with the recipe. I'm voting for a little more malts that I thought and a lower volume. I have never had to top up my wort in the past, I've always had enough volume after a full boil. I'll have to watch the volumes and weights in the future. Thanks!

I think that must be it. The sample looked clean, (and tasted great). So I'm beginning to think maybe I had 1.25LB's of grain or so and 7.5LB's LME ... that would, I guess bring me up to the 1.070? Is there a way to calc what the OG was ... 4.25G x 1.070 @ 65F + 1G x 1.0 @ 65F = 5.25G @ OG...

The 1.070 reading was before I added any water to bring it up from 4.25G to 5.25G. The reading was straight out of the brew pot. Isn't 1.070 way high for 4.25G of wort with 7LB of LME + 1LB of steeped grains? Thanks!

I've been brewing this extract + steeped grains from my LBS called "Wet & Wild West Coast Wheat", (I think that's the name). It's essentially a Heff. I've brewed four batches since last fall ... and they've all come out really well. So, since I'd tapped the keg about a month ago, I decided to...

This is a great forum! I've brewed off and on for years and I think I've learned more in the last month or so digging around this site than I've learned in all the other years put together. Anyway, up until recently I never used starters, I used either dry yeast or smack packs. After reading...